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Founder & CEO @JangaFX real-time VFX, bird, and manufacturing enthusiast

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Testing particle shape packing in IlluGen

Testing particle shape packing in IlluGen

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EmberGen 2's new combustion system models soot, oxygen, realistic camera exposure and a whole lot more. Stay tuned for a lot more fire.

EmberGen 2's new combustion system models soot, oxygen, realistic camera exposure and a whole lot more. Stay tuned for a lot more fire.

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Movable domains experiment in EmberGen

Movable domains experiment in EmberGen

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What if I could cut and paste smoke?
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What if I could cut and paste smoke?

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184,432 views • 3 years ago

Figured i'd give this a shot in IlluGen. Took me about 5 minutes to get to this point!
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Figured i'd give this a shot in IlluGen. Took me about 5 minutes to get to this point!

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18,709 views • 2 months ago

Extreme viscosity in LiquiGen. Can't wait to have our HQ meshing in the same build!
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Extreme viscosity in LiquiGen. Can't wait to have our HQ meshing in the same build!

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80,297 views • 1 year ago

Figured i'd poke around for 45 minutes or so and see how far I could get for something like this in IlluGen
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Figured i'd poke around for 45 minutes or so and see how far I could get for something like this in IlluGen

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13,993 views • 2 months ago

How 2 Goop in IlluGen #realtimevfx
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How 2 Goop in IlluGen #realtimevfx

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18,564 views • 3 months ago

Working on a news letter article about Diablo 3 VFX techniques and how you can take them a little bit further. In this case we're using a custom nonlinear gradient to define the volume of our smoke. We take D3's psuedo volumetric smoke techniques and make it react to the suns position and color.
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Working on a news letter article about Diablo 3 VFX techniques and how you can take them a little bit further. In this case we're using a custom nonlinear gradient to define the volume of our smoke. We take D3's psuedo volumetric smoke techniques and make it react to the suns position and color.

Nick Seavert

24,462 views • 7 months ago

Here's 1 minute of real-time Zero-G action in LiquiGen. Be prepared to pick up your jaw tomorrow after our big stream.
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Here's 1 minute of real-time Zero-G action in LiquiGen. Be prepared to pick up your jaw tomorrow after our big stream.

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77,816 views • 3 years ago

Breakdown of my fire anomaly made with IlluGen, EmberGen, and #UE5. Be sure to watch with audio. This should paint a clear picture of how IlluGen can greatly speed up your real-time VFX workflow. This is just a glimpse at how powerful IlluGen really is. Let me know if this type of breakdown is something you'd like to see more of. #realtimevfx #gamedev
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Breakdown of my fire anomaly made with IlluGen, EmberGen, and #UE5. Be sure to watch with audio. This should paint a clear picture of how IlluGen can greatly speed up your real-time VFX workflow. This is just a glimpse at how powerful IlluGen really is. Let me know if this type of breakdown is something you'd like to see more of. #realtimevfx #gamedev

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25,639 views • 1 year ago

Built a simple flare generator in IlluGen today. Really fun to play around with the procedural nature of the tool and just make some cool things! Infinite variations and really easy to find something to leap off of quickly. If you want to give the generator a shot in IlluGen, feel free to download it here:
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Built a simple flare generator in IlluGen today. Really fun to play around with the procedural nature of the tool and just make some cool things! Infinite variations and really easy to find something to leap off of quickly. If you want to give the generator a shot in IlluGen, feel free to download it here:

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24,694 views • 1 year ago

illuGen + EmberGen for mana. (there's a bug on the looping flipbook) illuGen only for health. Textures are 2D but are spherically distorted with ease. VFX in games is going to be so much easier when this comes out this summer!
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illuGen + EmberGen for mana. (there's a bug on the looping flipbook) illuGen only for health. Textures are 2D but are spherically distorted with ease. VFX in games is going to be so much easier when this comes out this summer!

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30,881 views • 1 year ago

For years I've wanted to be able to make looping, tiling smoke textures from EmberGen. IlluGen finally allows me to do that without even having to think about how to do it. I made a square, looping smoke simulation flipbook in EmberGen. I imported it into IlluGen as a flipbook, ran a sheet decode on it to give me individual frames, used a Voronoi tile node and re-encoded the sheet for an absolutely perfect tiling, looping simulation.
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For years I've wanted to be able to make looping, tiling smoke textures from EmberGen. IlluGen finally allows me to do that without even having to think about how to do it. I made a square, looping smoke simulation flipbook in EmberGen. I imported it into IlluGen as a flipbook, ran a sheet decode on it to give me individual frames, used a Voronoi tile node and re-encoded the sheet for an absolutely perfect tiling, looping simulation.

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26,875 views • 1 year ago

Quick breakdown, with project files, on how to make erosion based liquid animations similar to Sea of Thieves & The Last of Us The gist is you export 255 frames of alpha from LiquiGen then in Illugen use the sheet encode node to accumulate these frames. From there that accumulated erosion map can be thresholded in-game to playback a rough approximation of the liquid animation with far less memory usage. Project Files for LiquiGen and IlluGen: #rtvfx #gamedev
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Quick breakdown, with project files, on how to make erosion based liquid animations similar to Sea of Thieves & The Last of Us The gist is you export 255 frames of alpha from LiquiGen then in Illugen use the sheet encode node to accumulate these frames. From there that accumulated erosion map can be thresholded in-game to playback a rough approximation of the liquid animation with far less memory usage. Project Files for LiquiGen and IlluGen: #rtvfx #gamedev

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14,822 views • 8 months ago

Messing around with LiquiGen. Will likely do an update on LiquiGen during our next live stream
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Messing around with LiquiGen. Will likely do an update on LiquiGen during our next live stream

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40,691 views • 3 years ago

Using EmberGen to visualize wind tunnel vorticity!
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Using EmberGen to visualize wind tunnel vorticity!

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35,025 views • 2 years ago

Full breakdown of my lightning strike spell with IlluGen! Learn how to utilize mesh flipbooks from IlluGen or LiquiGen and play them back in Unreal. #gamedev #indiedev #realtimevfx
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Full breakdown of my lightning strike spell with IlluGen! Learn how to utilize mesh flipbooks from IlluGen or LiquiGen and play them back in Unreal. #gamedev #indiedev #realtimevfx

Nick Seavert

15,032 views • 11 months ago

We added a #roblox channel to our discord server: This is for artists who do #robloxvfx or vfx related #robloxdev We make tools (IlluGen) that I think could work well for Roblox VFX artists and I'm interested in expanding into content platforms like Roblox.
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We added a #roblox channel to our discord server: This is for artists who do #robloxvfx or vfx related #robloxdev We make tools (IlluGen) that I think could work well for Roblox VFX artists and I'm interested in expanding into content platforms like Roblox.

Nick Seavert

10,512 views • 7 months ago

My fire marble couldn't survive the heat. Testing out geometry to texture render targets in IlluGen
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My fire marble couldn't survive the heat. Testing out geometry to texture render targets in IlluGen

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11,982 views • 10 months ago

Working on a lightning strike spell with IlluGen and UE5. The lightning and shock rings were created in IlluGen and are mesh flipbooks with the animation frame data stored in vertex color alpha channel. Will do a breakdown video next week. #realtimevfx #gamedev
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Working on a lightning strike spell with IlluGen and UE5. The lightning and shock rings were created in IlluGen and are mesh flipbooks with the animation frame data stored in vertex color alpha channel. Will do a breakdown video next week. #realtimevfx #gamedev

Nick Seavert

12,394 views • 11 months ago

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